I'm curious if anyone has any insight is to the Mormon culture in Farmington, New Mexico? It's very real possibility that I move there with my fam in tow. I've read so many differing reviews on the town.

No replys must mean it's not over crowded and bursting at the ward house doors with morgbots.

or there's no exmos.

The Mormon Culture there is about half and half. It has a strong old time Mormon pioneer component especially on the western half and in Kirtland. Actually Kirtland has the worst of every Mormon stereotype one could imagine.

In farmington it is mostly OK. You will find out the close friends you make there are not LDS.

in the Southern part of the Albuquerque area.

I have heard of some Mo-based weirdness there, but I have been away from all things Mormon for so long, I can't verify anything.

I stayed in Farmington, NM last year on a drive to visit several national parks. I have rarely seen such poverty as I did there. It seemed like a tough little town.

I grew up in Santa Fe, left the NM many years ago.

But my memories of Farmington was that it was an oil and coal town, everything was tied to that economy. There was some farming along the river and then of course the influence of the native Americans.

Poverty isn't any better or any worse than what other native American towns across the country, it is getting better with the casinos.

So it was mainly a working town, not one of the tourist attraction towns, except visiting Shiprock and the 4 corners area.

The more vacation and tourist area are north into Colorado and east the Navajo reservoir and fishing on the San Juan river.

My impression is that the area isn't as religious as it was in the mountains of north central NM and the smaller villages along the Rio Grand river.

Unless forced, I wouldn't want to live in the area.

The original poster must work in Oil and Gas, probably for Shell. One of my cousin's husband worked there in the early 2000's. It is a typical Native American community. I traveled through there a lot, a long time ago. Never saw it as uber-Mormon.

I wouldn't want to live there either. Santa Fe, on the other hand . . .

Thanks for the replies. I concur with most comments here after visiting the town. Poverty and socioeconomic class deficiencies definitely are abundant. I'm definitely not in the coal and mining industry. I do see how mostly everything in town is tied to that industry. Roumors say that one of the larger coal mines will be closing in a few years along with the APS coal power plant when they convert to solar. While there I did notice a few very large non Mormon churches that look like they are doing very well...

Thanks for the input.

My observations are pretty much in line with everybody else. Lots of Native American poverty. And roughnecks with too much money, time, methamphetamine, and alcohol.

Farmington had a large and active LDS membership in the late 1970s and mid eighties.Lately, the Church has been in decline in the area. MANY inactives, ex members, and members moving away..

I lived in Farmington for 22 years, and my adult son still lives there.

It is not a native American town; however, it is about 16 miles from the eastern edge of the Navajo reservation, with Ute and Apache on the north. Besides coal and gas industries, which are in bad shape right now, the main industry is being the shopping hub for a huge rural area surrounding it, including the reservations, eastern Arizona, and southern Colorado. Towns are few and far between in NM and the surrounding states.

It's a blue collar town, mostly. We experienced a mix of people in our neighborhood: (My husband was a geologist working for BLM there.) Most were transient oil and gas people (it's called the oil-patch). Some had lived there for decades and still do. Our neighborhood had a mix of Navajo, Hispanic, and white people. Poverty is evident everywhere. I dunno; it's a funny place. Kind of attractive in some ways, but feels oppressive. Interesting areas nearby, and some beautiful country.

Has 2 Wal-marts, a lot of fast food, a couple of good Tex-Mex type food restaurants, lots of motels--people come in for the weekend to shop, and people in the oil and gas industry I guess---has a small college, and a pretty decent library. As someone above said, Kirtland has the local Stake house; I forget how many wards there are in Farmington itself---6 maybe? Quite a mix of religions, Catholic, Mormon, and all varieties of protestant, plus peyote cult on the rez.



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There used to be a poster who lived there. I can't remember her name. It seems like she was going to college several years ago.

Oh, I remembered, it was Itzpapalotl. Anybody seen her lately?

it is full of thieving meth heads. I